Improvement in cloth-measuring apparatus



R. H. KENT.

Cloth Measure.

Patented Nov. 24, 1868.

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Letters Patent No. 84,281, dated November 24, 1868.

v IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTH-MEASURING- APPARATUS.

To all whom "it may concern.-

Be it known that I, R. H. KENT, of Middlebury, in the county of Summit,and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful lmprovementsin:1 Machine for Invoicing Cloths, 8:0. and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full and complete description of the construction andoperation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,making a part of this specification, in which Figure l is a top view ofthe machine.

Figure 2 is a side view.

Figure 3 is an end view.

Figures 4: and 5 are detached sections.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the views.

A, fig. 1, is a platform, on which is arranged the following apparatus,viz:

In the frame, B, 2, is journallcd the shaft 0, 3, to one end of which iskeyed a cog-wheel, 1), above which, and engaging in the same, is asimilar wheel,

- E, fitted loosely and feathered to the shaft F, 1, so

that said shaft can slide in and through the wheel for a purposehereinafter shown.

The inner end of the sha-it F terminates in a spreading fan-tailedclamp, G, fig. 1.

Corresponding wheels and clamps are arranged in like manner to theopposite end of the shaft 0 and frame, as shown in 2, D E, with thedifference only that the wheel E is keyed to the stem of the clamp whichforms its shaft, instead of being feathered to it, as specified of thewheel E.

H, fig. 1, is a smooth-faced roller, having its bearings in the stays I,secured to the sides of the frame B. Immediately below this roller is alarger one, J.

The faces of said rollers Illll upon each other for a purposehereinafter shown.

\ Arranged parallel with these rollers are the bars K L, fig. 1, towhich reference will hereafterbc made. 4

M is a lever, one end of which is attached to the bar L, reaching fromthence over and upon the roller H, the purpose of which is to keep thesaid roller hard pressed upon the roller J, by means of theadjustingscrew N..

O, fig. 3, is a slide, on one end of which is fixed a standard, 1?,provided with a clamp, Q.

On the opposite end of said slide is arranged an adjustable standard, R,in the upper end of which is fitted a movable clamp, S.

The standard referred to is secured to the slide by a thumb-screw, A,penetrating the base of the standard, into and through a slottedsill orrail, B, fig. 1, in and alongwvhich it fiioves for adjustment, for apmpose hereinafter shown.

The slide 0 is secured to and moves in the bed 0' by a tongue andgroove, as shown in the cross-section, fig. 4, and so also is the baseof the standard It secured to and works in the slide by means of atongueIn order to lessen this labor, and facilitate the work of invoicing,this machine is especially intended, and operated in the followingmanner, viz:

The roll of goods to be run ofif and measured is secured between thestandards R P in the clamp Q,'said clampembracing the ends of the boardon which the goods are wound.

A naked winding-board is also secured in the clamps G, on the oppositeside of the machine into which the goods are to be run off.

The free end of the goods is then carried up over the rail or bar L,from thence downunder the bar K, thence between the rollers to thewinding-board, to which it is attached. i

E represents a roll of goods in process of winding.

Now, on turning the board secured in clamp G, by'

means of the crank F and wheels D E, the goodswill he run off from theroll X, and wound again at E.

In order that the goods shall be rewound tightly and smoothly, a tensionis given to it between the roll E and rollers H J.

As the cloth is passed between said rollers, more or less tension can begiven to the goods by the adjustingscrew N, causing the roller H toengage with greater or less intensity upon the lower'one, J, as thenature of the goods may require.

As the cloth is being rmi off, the number of yards in the piece isdetermined by the register R, each revolution of the roller causing acertain movement of the dial-plate, and indicated by the points, so thatthe number of yards that each piece of goods ma contain is given at thetime of winding.

As the measurement is made from the line of contact of the tensionrollers in the direction of the winding or tension of the goods, agreater degree of accuracy in the measurement is obtained than can be ifmeasured in the slack or by hand.

Should the winding of the cloth be uneven, running too much over theends of the winding-board, it can be easily corrected by moving theslide 0 along in either direction, as the case may be, and thereby keepthe goods free of wrinkles, and even with the ends of the board.

It will be obvious that as the standard R is adjust standards It and E,so that they may be moved therein, a collar, N, securing thein in anyone position required.

As the measurement is made from the line of contact of the rollers H J,after all wrinkles have been removed, as the first thread passes, andbefore the goods are stretched, a greater degree of accuracy inmeasurement is obtained than can be if measured in the slack or by hand.

Thus, it will be seen, by the operation of the rollers H J two distinctand valuable effects are produced: first, the aoeurate measurement ofthe'goods; second,

